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Some time in June of the year 1800 (as privately1 chronicled) there came a famous evening at Whitelaw’s Club in St. James’s Street, off Piccadilly, London. There and then—according to the unattested evidence of an eyewitness—Mr. Ladislaw lost his head, Lord Dunlone his mistress, Sir Robert Linne his fortune, and Major Dalrymple his life. Thus it appears these four were all losers, and each of a material property, save the first, who, alone of the quartette, commuted2 his self-possession for a very real equivalent in hard cash.
“Whitelaw’s” in those days ran, of a host of gambling3 clubs, the deepest. It was there all heavy potations and long stakes (at which many a self-martyr burned); but the first of these were put down and the second up with an accepted solemnity of decorum that was traditional to the place and the sign of its moral endowment. Fox, in his heavier moments, had been known to hazard in its glooms occasionally, and to lose, of course; and—equally of course—to find immediate4 balm for his scorched5 fingers in the inevitable6 “Herodotus.” Selwyn, also, and Topham Beauclerc, and many another Georgium sidus, had played and hiccupped within its pregnant walls; but always with gravity and a weight of personal responsibility towards the foundation. “Brookes’s” might have held in its time more showy revelry; “Almack’s” have gambled in broad-brimmed straw hats, bedecked with flowers, and masks to hide the play of emotions. “Whitelaw’s” would have none of these. It had ever stood coldly aloof7 from flash and notoriety, accepting Todd’s definition of a club as “An association of persons subjected to particular rules,” rather than that of Johnson (the rendering8 has a warm personal flavour), who calls it “An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.” From first to last it remained
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通勤( commute的过去式和过去分词 ); 减(刑); 代偿 | |
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gambling
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elegance
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放大,扩大( amplify的过去式和过去分词 ); 增强; 详述 | |
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n.丝绒,天鹅绒;adj.丝绒制的,柔软的 | |
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v.(使)发酵( ferment的现在分词 );(使)激动;骚动;骚扰 | |
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perilous
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thigh
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commotion
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不高兴地,绷着脸,忧郁地 | |
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ad. 歇斯底里地 | |
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